Rakehead Rehabilitation Unit is a specialist neurorehabilitation facility based at Burnley General Hospital. We have a dedicated Multidisciplinary Team that is motivated and enthusiastic to provide safe, effective, and personal care for all our patients, their families, and carers.
We are a friendly, hardworking, supportive, and caring team, and as a team, we welcome and support new starters. There are lots of opportunities for development and ongoing relevant learning. This is a busy unit with a professional but friendly team delivering high standards of care. We are looking for highly enthusiastic, motivated, and committed housekeepers to join our forward-thinking and ever-developing team. This will be a 5-day per week service. You should be able to work effectively as part of a team and deal with complex sensitive information in a professional manner.
We are looking for enthusiastic individuals with a can-do attitude who have the ability to work within our team. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate a friendly and empathetic approach to patients, carers, and colleagues.
Responsibilities
1. Maintain a clean and tidy environment for patients, staff, and visitors, including equipment and fixtures on a daily/weekly basis.
2. Be responsible for ordering and maintaining stock levels and equipment.
3. Report broken/faulty equipment/fixtures and furnishings to the relevant departments, maintaining records for the same, and ensuring prompt actions are taken to maintain the smooth running of the unit.
4. Develop own skills and knowledge and contribute to the development of others, e.g., peers & apprentices.
5. Order and prepare meals for the patients.
6. Organize the ward, liaising with the portering service for delivery of linen/provisions.
Environment
To maintain a clean and tidy environment for patients, staff, and visitors. Assist in the needs of patients, visitors, and staff, and maintain a good working relationship within the team. Complete daily and weekly environmental checklists.
Clinical
1. Daily damp dusting of the medical equipment within the ward environment such as monitors, infusion pumps, etc., with the aim of the prevention of infection, ensuring they are completely stocked.
2. The safe laundering of infected linen and knowledge of infection control policies regarding the same.
3. Safe lifting, moving, and storing of medical supplies daily and maintaining a safe environment where the medical equipment is stored.
Management
1. Organize own day-to-day activities, using own initiative to prioritize own workload to a high standard.
2. Report broken/faulty equipment/fixtures and furnishings to the relevant departments, maintaining records for the same, and ensuring prompt actions are taken to maintain the smooth running of the unit.
3. When ordering medical and surgical supplies, liaise with other outside companies comparing costs to ensure economical use of funds within the budget using verbal and written skills.
4. Attend Trust moving and handling mandatory training.
Communication
1. Answer the telephone in a courteous manner, taking messages, referring calls to the nursing and medical staff.
2. Maintain confidentiality of patient information.
3. Participate in unit meetings and ensure the ward manager is made aware of any issues on the unit.
4. Develop own skills and knowledge and contribute to the development of others, e.g., peers & apprentices.
5. Attend statutory and mandatory training as required.
6. Participate in personal development review, personal development plan, and maintain a personal development portfolio. Achieve agreed learning objectives.
7. Contribute to the development of the service.
Risk Management
It is a standard element of the role and responsibility of all staff of the Trust that they fulfill a proactive role towards management of risk in all their actions. This entails the risk assessment of all situations, the taking of appropriate actions, and reporting of incidents, near misses, and hazards.
Records Management/Data Protection Act
As an employee of the Trust, you have a legal responsibility for all records, including patient health, financial, personal, and administrative, that you gather or use as part of your work within the Trust.
Health and Safety
All employees of the Trust have a statutory duty of care for their own personal safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions. Employees are required to cooperate with management to enable the Trust to meet its own legal duties and to report any circumstances that may compromise the health, safety, and welfare of those affected by the Trust's undertakings.
Confidentiality and Information Security
As a Trust employee, you are required to uphold the confidentiality of all records held by the Trust, whether patient records or Trust information. This duty lasts indefinitely and will continue if you are no longer employed by the Trust.
Infection Control
All employees have a personal responsibility for adhering to the control of the infection policy. Further guidance can be sought from your line manager.
This post will be subject to a 6-month probationary period following the outline for the role. Once this has been successfully completed, you will be required to undertake an annual personal development review which will give the opportunity to discuss with your manager your progress in relation to your job outline.
This advert closes on Thursday 5 Dec 2024.
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